Newsletter
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Laudato Si Summit
In July 2022, Caritas Nigeria hosted a summit to mark the 7th anniversary of Laudato Si, the encyclical of Pope Francis. Introduced in 2015, Laudato Si encourages humans to heed the “cry of the earth and cry of the poor” by caring for the environment and reshaping the future of the earth.
Commemoration of World Day Against Trafficking
Caritas Nigeria flagged off this year's celebration of World Day Against Trafficking with a stakeholders’ engagement meeting in Ogoja, Cross River State where we are implementing the UNHCR-funded Protection Assistance for Cameroonian Refugees program.
Provision of Livelihood Assistance to Vulnerable Persons
To cushion the impact of irregular migration in Nigeria and aid the socio-economic integration of migrants and internally displaced persons, Caritas Nigeria, with the support of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, reached out to forty (40) displaced women at the Malaysian Garden settlement camp in Abuja on August 14, 2022.
Capacity-building Sessions with Development Professionals
As an approved training organisation, Caritas Nigeria offers training and consulting services to civil society organisations, multilateral organisations, international/local non-governmental organizations (I/NGOs), and government agencies through the Project Management for Development Professionals (PMD Pro) certification course, which is designed to...
Ensuring Fullness of Life for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
In 2017, the CDC awarded Caritas Nigeria a 5-year comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment project – 4GATES (Global Action Towards Epidemic Control in Subnational units in Nigeria) – for implementation in Abia, Delta, Enugu, and Imo states.
The Fight Against Pediatric HIV
To reduce pediatric HIV, stigma, and discrimination, Caritas Nigeria, supported by Caritas Internationalis, PEPFAR, and UNAIDS, is collaborating with religious leaders in Nigerian communities to identify children living with HIV and place them on antiretroviral therapy (ART) under the GRAIL project. GRAIL, an...
Mortality Surveillance Workshop
Despite the decline in HIV-related deaths around the globe, statistics show that almost 1 million people die from HIV/AIDS each year. To mitigate the HIV mortality rate in Nigeria, Caritas Nigeria, through a Mortality Surveillance and Verbal Autopsy workshop in Enugu State, strengthened the capacity of frontline workers in 10 HIV treatment service delivery facilities (SDF) in the state.